Akansh Gupta, Developer in Delhi, India
Akansh is available for hire
Hire Akansh

Akansh Gupta

Verified Expert  in Engineering

Bio

Akansh is a very successful, results-oriented professional with a strong interest in automation and emerging technology. He has vast expertise in customer-facing positions and a track record of success with cloud infrastructures, serverless and microservice-based environments, IaC and GitOps principles, and DevOps automation. Akansh is an open-source enthusiast, AWS certified, and committed to excellence in delivering high-quality and innovative solutions.

Portfolio

AppAcuity, Inc.
DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Marketplace, AWS CloudFormation...
Trade Receivables Discounting Platform
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)...
Fintech Product
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, GitOps, Azure DevOps...

Experience

  • DevOps - 6 years
  • Terraform - 5 years
  • Git - 4 years
  • Kubernetes - 4 years
  • Linux - 4 years
  • Bash Script - 4 years
  • Ansible - 4 years
  • Python - 3 years

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

Terraform, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Python, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, Cloud Architecture, CI/CD Pipelines, Linux, DevOps

The most amazing...

...thing I've worked on is a widely used podcast application, developed from the ground up, with millions of users in the United States.

Work Experience

DevOps Lead

2023 - 2024
AppAcuity, Inc.
  • Served as the DevOps Lead for the project with multiple accounts under the AWS Well-Architected program and obtained CIS benchmarking.
  • Implemented infrastructure as code (IaC) enforcement, successfully cleared all audits, and achieved SOC 2 compliance for the infrastructure.
  • Designed a resilient disaster recovery (DR) plan and implemented the strategy with regular backups (BCP), DR drills, and documentation.
  • Introduced GitOps strategy with custom CI/CD Bitbucket pipelines to deploy Infrastructure changes through Terraform and application changes to containers.
  • Conducted various POCs to bring new features like OIDC auth through Okta and AWS Cognito, Terragrunt for better IaC, centralized view of GuardDuty, Cloudtrail, Cloudwatch, and WAF logs, etc.
Technologies: DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Marketplace, AWS CloudFormation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Cloud Services, SOC 2, Kubernetes, Terraform, Terragrunt, TypeScript, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, Monorepos, AWS NAT Gateway, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Microservices Architecture, Knative, Scripting, DevSecOps, SecOps, Serverless, Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP), GitHub, Clustering, Azure, AWS Cloud Security, VPN, Pulumi, IT Security, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), BitBucket Pipelines, Azure Virtual Networks, AWS WAF, Amazon DynamoDB, Multicloud, Auto-scaling Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (CDKTF), Terraform Cloud, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Application Monitoring, Cloud Monitoring

Senior DevOps Engineer

2022 - 2023
Trade Receivables Discounting Platform
  • Created multi-account, multi-environment setup on AWS using AWS Copilot capable of single-click setup.
  • Designed and built the cloud infrastructure that cleared network and security audits with VAPT and SOC2 compliance. Created thorough reports for the same.
  • Designed a resilient disaster recovery (DR) plan and implemented the strategy with regular backups (BCP), DR drills, and documentation with RTO and RPO.
  • Designed serverless architecture and infrastructure for the platform using Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Aurora, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CodePipeline services.
  • Used AWS Control Tower and single sign-on (SSO) to configure multi-account setup and standardize user management.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon RDS, Networking, Datadog, Terraform, SOC 2, Cloud Security, AWS Marketplace, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Fargate, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Containers, Bash, CTO, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS CodeBuild, High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR), Scalability, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, Amazon API, TCP/IP, AWS Lambda, Monorepos, AWS NAT Gateway, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), PostgreSQL, Microservices Architecture, Scripting, DevSecOps, SecOps, Serverless, Terragrunt, Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP), GitHub, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Clustering, AWS Cloud Security, VPN, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), IT Security, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon ElastiCache, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Team Leadership, AWS WAF, Database Applications, Database Architecture, Databases, Auto-scaling Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (CDKTF), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Application Monitoring, Cloud Monitoring

DevOps Engineer

2021 - 2023
Fintech Product
  • Configured Kubernetes clusters on GCP using Terraform, making them capable of scaling and self-healing.
  • Configured multiple EKS clusters and various other AWS services to set up the project requirements.
  • Set up Azure DevOps pipelines and agents for the CI/CD of the microservices.
Technologies: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, GitOps, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Python, Helm, DevOps, Security, Architecture, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Docker, AWS Batch, Amazon EKS, Argo CD, Amazon RDS, Amazon Route 53, Load Balancers, Amazon EC2, Amazon CloudWatch, DNS, Datadog, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Development (CD), SSL, Cloud Deployment, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), TypeScript, AWS CloudFormation, Flask, Scaling, AWS ALB, DevOps Engineer, GitHub, Back-end, Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Data Protection, GitHub Actions, Autoscaling, Cloud Services, Monitoring, Virtualization, GitLab CI/CD, Shell Scripting, Amazon Firewall, Redis, Auth0, Django, APIs, AWS NLB, Amazon Aurora, DigitalOcean, Snowflake, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Prisma, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure, CircleCI, Solution Architecture, React, AWS CLI, AWS IAM, CloudOps, Cloud Computing, Cloud Migration, Cloud Architecture, Microservices, Leadership, Configuration Management, Google Cloud, .NET, Networking, AWS VPN, Kustomize, AWS Marketplace, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Fargate, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Containers, Bash, .NET Core, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR), Scalability, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, Amazon API, TCP/IP, Monorepos, AWS NAT Gateway, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Google Workspace, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), PostgreSQL, Microservices Architecture, Scripting, Serverless, Python 3, Terragrunt, Distributed Cloud, OpenShift, Kafka Streams, Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Clustering, Keycloak, AWS Cloud Security, Redshift, VPN, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), Pulumi, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon ElastiCache, Azure Virtual Networks, AWS WAF, Database Applications, Database Architecture, Databases, Multicloud, Auto-scaling Cloud Infrastructure, Google Bucket, Google Compute Engine (GCE), Google Stackdriver, Terraform Cloud, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Swaps, VPC, Application Monitoring, Telemetry, Cloud Monitoring

DevOps Engineer

2020 - 2021
Podcast App
  • Acted as a single DevOps engineer to design and launch a project and received an award in April 2021.
  • Carried out a cost analysis of the platform to reduce the over-cloud cost by 40%.
  • Recognized for good work by the client as I was involved with teams to meet demanding deadlines.
Technologies: Linux, Terraform, Kubernetes, Solution Design, Python, Jenkins, Grafana, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana, NGINX, DevOps, Security, Architecture, Amazon Web Services (AWS), RabbitMQ, AWS Lambda, CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Docker, Amazon EKS, Amazon RDS, Amazon Route 53, Load Balancers, Amazon EC2, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon CloudFront CDN, Docker Hub, API Gateways, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), DNS, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Development (CD), SSL, MySQL, Cloud Deployment, Node.js, JavaScript, Flask, Scaling, AWS ALB, System Architecture, DevOps Engineer, GitHub, Ubuntu, Back-end, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Autoscaling, System Administration, Cron, Cloud Services, Monitoring, Virtualization, Shell Scripting, SQL, Amazon Firewall, Testing, Caching, Redis, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Redis Cache, APIs, AWS NLB, Amazon Aurora, Cloudflare, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), AWS ELB, Infrastructure, Solution Architecture, React, AWS CLI, AWS IAM, Cloud Computing, AWS AppSync, Cloud Architecture, Microservices, Leadership, Ansible, Configuration Management, Networking, AWS Marketplace, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Fargate, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Containers, Bash, Talend ETL, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Scalability, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, Amazon API, TCP/IP, AWS NAT Gateway, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), ELK (Elastic Stack), Helm, Microservices Architecture, Scripting, Serverless, Python 3, Amazon API Gateway, Docker Swarm, Clustering, AWS Cloud Security, VPN, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon ElastiCache, Team Leadership, AWS WAF, Database Applications, Database Architecture, Databases, Auto-scaling Cloud Infrastructure, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Jenkins Pipeline, AWS CloudFormation, Cloud Monitoring

DevOps Engineer

2019 - 2020
Telecom Shopping
  • Designed Ansible Playbooks for all the tools applied in the stack like Nginx, Pritunl, Jenkins, Nexus, monitoring and logging stacks, Kafka and ZooKeeper, Apache NiFi, etc.
  • Designed a single-command setup that created AWS resources and required configuration with Terraform and Ansible on a single application.
  • Designed customised monitoring templates on Grafana for an in-depth analysis of the stack.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Python 3, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Docker, Amazon EC2, Docker Hub, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), MySQL, AWS ALB, DevOps Engineer, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Autoscaling, Cloud Services, Monitoring, Virtualization, Shell Scripting, Bitbucket, AWS NLB, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Infrastructure, Solution Architecture, AWS CLI, AWS IAM, Packer, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Amazon EKS, Microservices, Configuration Management, Groovy, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Containers, Scalability, Cloud, AWS NAT Gateway, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), AWS Elastic Beanstalk, ELK (Elastic Stack), Helm, Kafka Streams, Clustering, AWS Cloud Security, Redshift, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), BitBucket Pipelines, AWS WAF, Auto-scaling Cloud Infrastructure, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Jenkins Pipeline, Application Monitoring, Cloud Monitoring

DevOps Engineer

2019 - 2020
Car Rental Product
  • Configured GitLab CI/CD to manage the deployment of the microservices.
  • Coordinated with a team based in three countries and helped build the architecture and project submission.
  • Executed the load testing with 5,000+ users per second using the application.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Kong, Amazon RDS, AWS Lambda, Grafana, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, NGINX, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Docker, Amazon EKS, GitLab, Load Balancers, Amazon EC2, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Docker Hub, API Gateways, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Development (CD), MySQL, Cloud Deployment, JavaScript, Scaling, AWS ALB, System Architecture, DevOps Engineer, Ubuntu, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Autoscaling, System Administration, Cron, Cloud Services, Monitoring, Virtualization, GitLab CI/CD, Shell Scripting, SQL, HAProxy, QA Testing, Testing, Caching, Redis, Redis Cache, AWS NLB, Amazon Aurora, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure, Java, Solution Architecture, AWS CLI, AWS IAM, CloudOps, Packer, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Microservices, Leadership, Ansible, Configuration Management, Groovy, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Containers, Bash, Scalability, Apache HTTP Server, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, TCP/IP, AWS NAT Gateway, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), ELK (Elastic Stack), Microservices Architecture, Scripting, Python 3, Amazon API Gateway, Kafka Streams, GitHub, Clustering, AWS Cloud Security, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), AWS WAF, Database Applications, Database Architecture, Jenkins Pipeline, Application Monitoring, Cloud Monitoring

Experience

Fintech App

One of the largest online platforms for working capital to help companies, their suppliers, and their customers gain greater control over their cash flow on demand when needed. I worked on developing its products and services by creating Terraform templates and Ansible playbooks for provisioning on cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP. I also developed Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions templates for CI/CD, Helm charts, and Kubernetes manifests. Furthermore, I managed secrets with Vault for application use and generation of temporary credentials, managed central monitoring and logging with Datadog, and developed scripts in Python or Shell to automate sanitary tasks.

Podcast App

https://harkaudio.com/
As a DevOps engineer, I built a podcast application, securing the infrastructure over the AWS cloud platform with Terraform and configuring the Amazon EKS cluster to deploy microservices with Kong as an API gateway. I also created CI/CD pipelines for Node.js projects using Jenkins, monitored infrastructure and alerts with Prometheus and Grafana, performed application logging using ELK (Elastic Stack), and completed cost optimization in the AWS cloud.

Telecom Product Platform

http://www.axiomtelecom.com
An application for delivering telecom products in UAE. I worked on securing the application's infrastructure and creating Terraform templates and Ansible playbooks for providing the application on the AWS cloud platform. I also performed infrastructure monitoring and alerting and application logging using Elastic Stack.

Car Rental App

http://www.lumirental.com/en
A car rental application in Saudi Arabia. I configured and monitored the application, created CI/CD pipelines for Maven jobs and Android and iOS apps using Jenkins, and configured the EKS cluster to deploy microservices with Kong. I also conducted monitoring and alerting of infrastructure and ensured application logging with Elastic Stack.

Fintech App for Trade Receivables Discounting Platform

A digital platform to facilitate the discount for MSMEs and provide hassle-free financing to grow. Worked on designing and setting up the back-end infrastructure for the application on AWS cloud platform. The application was designed on a serverless framework for optimized resource and cost usage. The platform passed the SOC2 compliance audit as well as VAPT.

Education

2015 - 2019

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

GEU - India

Certifications

JANUARY 2021 - JUNE 2024

AWS Solutions Architect Associate

Amazon Web Services

NOVEMBER 2017 - PRESENT

MTA Networking Fundamentals

Microsoft

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Terragrunt, Node.js, Amazon API, PySpark, Jenkins Pipeline, React

Tools

Terraform, Jenkins, Helm, Git, Ansible, Grafana, Kibana, Amazon EKS, AWS CloudFormation, GitHub, GitLab CI/CD, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), AWS CLI, AWS IAM, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Kong, VPN, Velero, Logstash, NGINX, RabbitMQ, ELK (Elastic Stack), AWS Batch, GitLab, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon CloudFront CDN, Docker Hub, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Cron, Amazon Firewall, Bitbucket, CircleCI, CloudOps, Packer, AWS AppSync, Kustomize, AWS Fargate, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS CodeBuild, Docker Swarm, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), Amazon ElastiCache, Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (CDKTF), Google Compute Engine (GCE), Vault, SonarQube, Beanstalk, Subversion (SVN), Auth0, Prisma, AWS ELB, Talend ETL, Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX), Apache HTTP Server, Google Workspace, Kafka Streams, Keycloak, Amazon SageMaker, Google Stackdriver

Languages

Python, Bash Script, Bash, Python 3, SQL, Groovy, JavaScript, TypeScript, Snowflake, Java

Paradigms

Azure DevOps, DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Microservices Architecture, Continuous Development (CD), Microservices, DevSecOps, Testing

Platforms

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Docker, Amazon EC2, AWS NLB, Azure, AWS ALB, Ubuntu, DigitalOcean, Apache Kafka, OpenShift, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Knative

Storage

Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Auto-scaling Cloud Infrastructure, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, InfluxDB, Datadog, MySQL, Cloud Deployment, Redis, Amazon Aurora, Google Cloud, Amazon DynamoDB, Databases, Redshift, Google Bucket, MongoDB, Redis Cache, IBM Db2, Database Architecture

Frameworks

Flask, Django, .NET, .NET Core, Spark

Other

AWS DevOps, Prometheus, Architecture, CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon RDS, System Administration, Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), DevOps Engineer, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Services, Monitoring, Shell Scripting, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure, Solution Architecture, Cloud Computing, Cloud Migration, SOC 2, Containers, Cloud, AWS NAT Gateway, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Scripting, Amazon API Gateway, Clustering, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloud Monitoring, GitOps, Solution Design, Networking, Security, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Amazon Route 53, Load Balancers, API Gateways, SSL, Scaling, System Architecture, Back-end, Cloud Security, GitHub Actions, Autoscaling, Virtualization, Leadership, Configuration Management, AWS VPN, AWS Marketplace, High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR), Scalability, Enterprise Architecture, TCP/IP, Monorepos, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Distributed Cloud, SecOps, Serverless, Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP), AWS Cloud Security, Pulumi, IT Security, BitBucket Pipelines, Azure Virtual Networks, Team Leadership, AWS WAF, Multicloud, Terraform Cloud, VPC, Application Monitoring, Argo CD, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), DNS, Data Protection, HAProxy, QA Testing, Caching, APIs, Cloudflare, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), AWS Certified Developer, AWS CodePipeline, AWS Control Tower, CTO, Computer Architecture, Data Structures, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Database Applications, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Swaps, Telemetry

Collaboration That Works

How to Work with Toptal

Toptal matches you directly with global industry experts from our network in hours—not weeks or months.

1

Share your needs

Discuss your requirements and refine your scope in a call with a Toptal domain expert.
2

Choose your talent

Get a short list of expertly matched talent within 24 hours to review, interview, and choose from.
3

Start your risk-free talent trial

Work with your chosen talent on a trial basis for up to two weeks. Pay only if you decide to hire them.

Top talent is in high demand.

Start hiring